Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) affiliated with an academic medical center serving a diverse population in a mid-western metropolitan area.

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor. Perhaps a plan from the Healthcare.gov marketplace?

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Medical Advice Healthcare 52

Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Participants Participant data registered in a Dutch practice-based primary care research network (Family Medicine Network [FaMe-Net]). Among them, 2767 (44.9%) had at least 1 contact with their GP for at least 1 symptom diagnosis, and 161 (2.6%) had at least 1 persistent symptom diagnosis. Setting The Netherlands.

General Practice 52

General Practice Diagnose Management GP 52

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Doctor Provider Primary Care 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: A combined dataset consisting of prenatal data from a primary care database and intrapartum data from a provincial hospital administrative database. Exclusion criteria included a pre-pregnancy diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset: Results: This study had 198 participants.

Screening 130

Screening Diabetes Primary Care Family Physician 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Clinical Practice Diagnosis 52

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. On the drive home, it’s swelling and painful.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The PanDerm artificial intelligence (AI) model improves skin cancer diagnosis when used by doctors, according to a research article published online June 6 in Nature Medicine. PanDerm outperformed clinicians by 10.2 percent across 128 skin conditions on clinical photographs.

Diagnose 52

Diagnose Diagnosis Screening Clinic 52

Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Appointment Screening 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

People often see an endocrinologist after being referred by their primary care provider. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat?

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Primary Care Insurance Diabetes 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! If you have already been diagnosed with any medical conditions, write down all of the diagnoses you have.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

percent) had a confirmed asthma diagnosis after age 4 years. Arthur Hamie Owora, Ph.D., from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and colleagues sought to externally validate and update the PARS as a passive digital marker (PDM) for asthma risk.

Asthma 52

Asthma Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

per 1,000 is less than half that of the rate of adult emergency department visits that include a mental health diagnosis (53.0 The highest past-year 988 contact incidence rate was seen in the West, while the lowest was in the South (27.1 per 1,000 population); findings were similar for the past-year estimate of 988 use prevalence (1.8

IT 52

IT Mental Health Diagnosis Family Practice 52

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

Patient-Centered 40

Patient-Centered Clinic Provider Patients 40

Vascular Physician

JUNE 27, 2021

For proper diagnosis, a vascular specialist will complete a comprehensive evaluation that includes an ultrasound to detect varicose veins, evaluate blood flow and determine the efficiency of vein valves. Varicose veins run in the family for only 50% of all people who have them. Women are also more likely than men to get varicose veins.

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Insurance Transportation Patients 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Diagnosis Family Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. However, there is still a gap in understanding who has access to primary care and who maintains continuity of care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Family Physician Diagnosis 130

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Internal medicine is a medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults.

Internal Medicine 130

Internal Medicine GP Family Doctor Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Dataset: Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) database.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Mental Health Illness Family Doctor 130

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. We also worked a little bit with the primary care team certain of the risk factors. One might argue they still are. Alex: Yeah.

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

Family Physicians of Greeley

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This diagnosis increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Get a regular annual physical with your PCP (Primary Care Physician), get moderate physical activity at least 4-5 days per week (30 minutes), eat a healthy diet, and know your risk factors. Prediabetes is reversible!! What can you do?

Diabetes 40

Diabetes Diagnose Primary Care Physician Physicals 40

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis? Eric 21:58 I think for the coding, your encounter with a diagnosis. And so bathe is an acronym.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

“The simple and universally accessible waist-to-height measurement is useful in clinical and public health practice for liver disease screening, prevention, diagnosis and management globally.” ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Screening Management Clinic 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So kind of from a primary care point of view, the guys are doing okay.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? By diagnosis? How did you get interested in palliative care research and the stuff that you’re doing right now?

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team. They suffered from it.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). Alex: This is Alex Smith.

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Primary health care workers are a critical component of immunization services, a part of preventive health services. Family health centers are the facilities where the vaccination intention is much more vital, as they carry out the contact and case follow-ups during the pandemic and are the center of vaccination application.

Vaccination 40

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta. Charlotta: Thank you. Eric: Yeah.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98